Thursday, August 29, 1996 • Vol. XXX No.4 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Indiana visit precedes Clinton nomination Five-state tour ends Presidential visit in Michigan City wins recognition By BRAD PRENDERGAST for my hometown News Editor MICHIGAN CITY MICHIGAN CITY Touting the accomplishments of his adminis­ Growing up in a small town can be a tration and lending his support to state humbling experience, expecially at a Democratic eandidates. President Clinton con­ school where everyone seems to come cluded his whistle-stop train tour of the Midwest from a metropolis teeming with never on Wednesday with a visit to Michigan City. ending nightlife. After speaking before a erowd of about 40,000 Coming from a town at the city's Washington Park, Clinton flew where bowling may be aboard the presidential helicopter from Michigan the main attraction of a City Municipal Airport to the campus of the weekend night and dri­ University of Illinois-Chicago, then was driven to ving up and down the a hotel suite where he watched the teleeast of main street after dark is the Democratic National Convention at Chicago's considered a worth­ while activity to United Center. resident Clinton The delegates to the convention completed the teenagers, I was sur- ------ -flanked by prised when I heard Liz Foran formal business of this week-long parade of U.S. Rep. Tim speeehes and rallies by nominating Clinton for a P that President Clinton Ediror-in-Chief Roemer, Michigan would be making his-----­ second term. He will accept the nomination City Mayor S,heila tonight. last stop in Michigan City. Bergerson Brillson, Not that the city would not welcome Clinton's visit to Michigan City carne one day Gov. Evan Bayh, his afwr the convention's keynote address was given him. The northern region of Indiana is wife, and Lt. Gov. one of the few strongholds of the by Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh, who joined Clinton Frank O'Bannon - at the podium in Washington Park Wednesday. Democrats in a largely Republican state. speaks to the 40,000 Over 40,000 people attended Clinton's Bayh's keynote address Tuesday was a point­ who streamed into by-point defense against GOP attacks on Clinton, last stop yesterday before he headed Washington Park in toward Chicago and his assured nomina- allowing the president to focus Wednesday on Michigan City on see CLINTON I page 4 Wednesday. see FORAN I page 6 Score! • MUlTICULTURAL BEAT Hispanic student clubs merge, form 'La Alianza' By KELLY BROOKS compromise that emerged is News Writer known as La Alianza, which translates into "the alliance." One of the new voices to "The idea was brought up at emerge on campus this fall will a meeting of HAO. People come via a merger of three weren't able to go to each indi­ older, more experienced voic­ vidual meeting. This [the es. Last April the Hispanic merger] will make us a American Organization, the stronger force on campus and League of United Latin enable us to provide more cul­ American Citizens, and the turally, socially, and political­ National Hispanic Institute ly," explained Club Secretary organized to form one large Marisa Limon. club called La Alianza. Originally each club chose to The time demands from focus on a specific area in pro­ The Observer/Brandon Candura gramming their events. HAO Jim Mahood, Father Steve Newton, Mike Gaffud, abd Mike Signorelli are locked in heated combat on belonging to multiple clubs Sarin's new foosball table. spurred some members to find a solution to the dilemma. The see LA ALIANZA I page 4 ND grad student attends Expansion shifts parking plan Republican convention By HEATHER COCKS Associate News Editor By JUSTYN HARKIN California. Notre Dame student News Writer Matthew Szabo had the oppor­ New parking areas and traffic tunity to be at the Convention. regulations will be implement­ An event that happens but Szabo, a senior government ed for all home football games, oneo every four years occurred major with a concentration in Notre Dame Security/Police this summer. the Jlesburgh Program for announced in a press release. Juniper Road It draws eight times more Public Service, was one of 100 Stadium expansion has elimi­ between Edison reporters and media personnel interns sponsored by the nated many of the reserved and Bulla will be than participants, and features Washington Center for parking spaces; to compensate, closed between thousands of street vendors Internships and Academic the remaining lots have been 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. selling everything from t-shirts Seminars to go to San Diego for renamed and a new system on football game to buttons to baseball caps. The a two week series of lectures, designed. The majority of pub­ level of emotion is comparable panel discussions, and field­ lic parking will be on White R.V.'* days. to that of the Notre Dame stu­ work. Speakers for the interns Field, the lot north of campus dent section at the 1995 USC included Sam Donaldson, David at Douglas and Juniper roads. game. Brinkley, Former White House Some additional spaces will be The spectacle referred to is Chief of Staff Don Rucksfield, available in Blue Field, south of Edison Road. BlueField not thll Atlanta Olympics. It is among others. ··~ ... the 1996 Republican National . AoAo. ,....__ Convention in San Diego, see SZABO I page 6 see PARKING I page 6 Slue Field ,· ~ page 2 The Observer • INSIDE Thursday, August 29, 1996 • INSIDE COlUMN • WORlD AT A GLANCE Crews work to lift chunk of the Titanic road l;!:ffort<Jta-• • onportton<>t The ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland 13 1 southeast of A chunk of the Titanic sat stub- ~.alslng the Titanic !'tf..,.~¥~'!'!/:l.;:U:;!"J;%on: Newfoundland where bornly in its underwater grave of the Titanic went tnatd• the N•utHe 84 years Wednesday despite E""'""""""" down. not taken attempts to lift it from the bot- =::.=.... The expedition has tom of the North Atlantic using =:~'e. been denounced by huge bags of lighter-than-water =~.'~!>-'• some historians as tan- Coming to college gives us many options. lit.anlc'shliii.Tna There are so many decisions to make on our diesel fuel. :::1".':'/.':J':n':~' tamount to grave-rob- The salvagers turned to a tiny ">'•remo•••~<~n•" bing. They say the own for the first time. submarine - with former astro- '· .. ""'P"'"'"' ..............'"""'' wreck should be left It's both scary and Lori Allen t: ~~~~t, t>Mtertea ~:~J';'h=~ "'")( exciting. Mom and Saint Mary's naut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin tll!l'.l'~~.'i:f· ,'k'::.ll'::::;,>.~"'......... intact as a memorial. aboard- to cut the ballast hold- More than 1,500 of Dad are no longer News Editor available at a moments ing down some of the flotation ~:;,:::;;.~'r..~:~:::."l'~~~~2:~~.::•• 2,200 people aboard notice to answer those bags. The remote-control equip- were killed after the burning questions. Friends slowly begin to take their place as our wisdom seekers. ~~~!s~\a~e ~~~l:s~Pfa~teedd f~~ :~?-~'·:.. £.;;~;~:::· ~cc:::r!inoe~ ~~~i~k t: Many are right and many are wrong, only some reason. .··. = 1912, on its maiden voy- we know for sure who to really rely on. Decisions will arise daily that will try our ~~~; f~~:!~~~I:!~~ ~:~~:1 ~;,~=--- ~~~fo}C::~·y:~t ti: patience and test our endurance. Some are .$!11tlt'l~nll: easy while others are quite difficult. From and the cables are twisting ,. trying to preserve a where to hang that new poster, to how to around," said Alexandra Foley of piece of history. RMS Titanic Inc .. which owns To raise the piece the tell a friend that she needs to go for help, salvage rights to the wreck. c.:s=o":::'~:::'.=o•::acave="'~c=""::::""="'~o="":::"":__ _________..=P:::tw::::m::.::.J::..::·""':::•:::••:::J'"' organizers were u~ing decisons will encompass your life. These decisions develop our character. The salvage operation was flotation bags filled with but sometimes the ones that we don't make being watched on video monitors by 1,700 passengers diesel, which can withstand the pressure 2.5 miles are the ones that define who we really are. aboard two cruise ships floating over the spot miles down. Think back to all of those moments when you could've done or said something, but didn't. Life is filled with them. Decisions Kemp calls for reconciliation Grozny residents vow to stay we decided against making for one reason or another. Instead of taking a risk, it was GROZNY, Russia easier to simply move on. Thinking back Campaigning along streets not used Block upon block of blackened buildings crumble, per­ though, how does it feel? to seeing GOP candidates. Jack Kemp vaded by death. The smell of burnt flesh wafts out of a •It's that one guy, THE guy, who you plunged into an impoverished inner charred Russian tank destroyed as it plowed through the never did get the courage to tell your true city area today to trumpet a central market. Disheveled war orphans roam the rub­ feelings to. That same guy who you see now Republican "new civil rights record ble-strewn streets, pillaging for food as rebel fighters and wonder what could've been. for America." The GOP vice presi­ with machine guns enforce a fragile peace. And yet for •It's that one guy. THE guy, who you did dential nominee returned to South thousands of residents who have made their way back to get the courage to talk to ... and really Central Los Angeles. scene of 1992 Chechnya's capital after fleeing the latest bombard­ shouldnt've. rioting after the Rodney King verdicts.